Art
We started our new art topic by looking at tone. The children did an amazing job at making their sketches look 3D and adding highlight where the light hits.
10At St Jude’s, we believe that Art and Design is a vital and integral part of every child’s education. Our Art and Design curriculum is engaging and enriched with activities and opportunities to inspire children to explore their own personal development in creativity and open mindedness to uncover gifts and talents and a love of the arts. A broad and balanced curriculum equips them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design.
We believe providing a nurturing environment through the use of art enables all children to participate and achieve, regardless of their starting points. We endorse Art and Design as a means to contribute to a child’s personal development through self-reflection to persevere to produce the best outcomes that they can. It helps children to communicate and express themselves in a non-verbal way, while promoting engagement. We are aware that participating in the arts contributes to a child’s mental health and well-being and so all children have the opportunity to be creative freely to express themselves.
We understand that art makes the world accessible. From inclusion and diversity to exploring and celebrating similarities and differences between peoples, places and cultures and this is something children explore through a range of artists from all around the world and from a range of backgrounds and cultures.
Art and Design enables pupils to develop a natural sense of wonder and curiosity about the world around them. At St Jude’s children will develop their understanding of the visual language of art and design (line, colour, texture, tone, colour, pattern, shape, 3D form). This will be developed by providing an accessible and engaging curriculum which will enable the children to reach their full potential.
Our art curriculum provides a clear and comprehensive scheme of work that will show progression of skills across all key stages within the strands of Art. Within the curriculum we show our pupils a range of artists with each year group looking at least one artist. A diverse range of artists are chosen to research and focus on, linking to topics, while ensuring we cover the work of famous local, national and international artists to enhance the children’s learning.
Teaching should plan for a final piece of artwork to be produced/displayed and shared at the end of each topic. Pupils are encouraged to use their imagination through a wide variety of media and manipulative skills are developed as well as an awareness of colour, texture, design and dimension.
Key stage 1 and Key stage 2 process:
Key stage 2
(the sketch books will show progression throughout the child’s own journey through our school and will follow them into the next year group so they can be used as a reference and inspiration for further work)
As part of our WOWs partnership our school takes part in a biannual art exhibition. In preparation for this exhibition the children have the opportunity for collaborative working and exploring the different styles and techniques of a range of artists.
At St Jude’s we have a thriving Art Club where the children engage in fun creative activities and have visited the TATE Liverpool as a group.
At St Jude’s informal assessments of children’s art and design is an ongoing process ensuring children are supported and challenged appropriately. The children are assessed against the National Curriculum expectations on a termly basis. This data is analysed on a termly basis to inform and address any trends or gaps in provision and attainment.
Further information is gathered through pupil questionnaires and interviews; highlighting strengths and achievement and any improvements, knowledge and skills that still need to be embedded.
We have a rigorous monitoring program to ensure all the national curriculum is being covered. Monitoring in the subject takes place every half term and is fed back to staff and acted upon so that we can constantly improve our Art and Design provision in school.
Our Art and Design provision is designed to equip each child with a knowledge and understanding of influential artists and their work and with the skills and confidence to continue to develop their own creativity.
Click on the links below to see medium term plans for each topic.
Year 1 Art and Design MTP Chihuly
Year 1 Art and Design MTP Lowry
Year 2 Art and Design MTP Degas
Year 2 Art and Design MTP Van Gogh
Year 3 Art and Design MTP Calder
Year 3 Art and Design MTP Riley
Year 4 Art and Design MTP – Antoni Gaudi
Year 4 Art and Design MTP – Georgia O’Keeffe
Year 5 Art and Design MTP Miro
Year 5 Art and Design MTP Rousseau and Morris
Year 6 Art and Design MTP Hepworth
Year 6 Art and Design MTP Isherwood
Websites to support your child with Art & Design at home, click on each website to explore.
Neok12 Arts & Crafts – a series of videos supporting children to draw
Google Art Project – A visual arts museum
We started our new art topic by looking at tone. The children did an amazing job at making their sketches look 3D and adding highlight where the light hits.
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Year 6 have continued their art journey inspired by the work of James Lawrence Isherwood. 🎨✨
This week, the children explored and practised a range of techniques that will help them create their own artwork in Isherwood’s distinctive style. They developed their understanding of perspective drawing and experimented with blending oil pastels to create different effects and atmospheres within their work.
As part of their learning, they investigated how colour can influence mood. Warm colours such as red, orange and purple were used to create energy and excitement, while cooler colours like blue, green and yellow helped to convey a more subdued or gloomy feeling.
We can’t wait to see these skills come together in their final pieces! 👏🖌️
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How amazing is this pixel art Year 4 have designed and created today!
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This week, we have been reading the story “Sam Plants a Sunflower” 🌻📚. We have been learning about the different parts of a plant, including the roots, stem, leaves, and flower 🌱🪴.
The children have also explored the beautiful colours found in plants and flowers 🎨🌼. Using their creative skills, they painted their own wonderful sunflowers, carefully choosing colours and adding lots of detail 🖌️🌻✨.
We are so proud of their enthusiasm and creativity this week! 😊🌱💛
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We are incredibly proud of one of our talented Year 4 pupils, who created this fantastic sketch of Sir David Attenborough.
The attention to detail and care shown in the artwork is truly impressive, and it is wonderful to see such creativity and artistic talent being celebrated in class. Well done on a brilliant piece of work! 🎨👏
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We have looked at the colourful and nature-based works of Rosseau and Morris and have practised using their techniques to create our own art in our sketchbooks.
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In Year 1, the children have been choosing and using appropriate paint tools to create a picture in the style of different artists.
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Year 1 have been learning about LS Lowry in Art. They have each created a piece of art in his style.
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Year 6 worked in groups to make their own marble runs using the paper from all of their hard work preparing and revising for their KS2 assessments. There are definitely some future architects and designers in the making!
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As always, we were delighted to welcome families into school to celebrate and share all the fantastic effort children have put into their homework projects. Thank you for supporting your child to be creative and share their learning. We were so impressed with each and every project.
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Today our preschoolers had so much fun creating sea life art! 🌊🎨
We used special sea animal stampers to make colorful underwater pictures. 🐠🐙🐢 The children loved pressing the stampers to see which ocean friend would appear next! 💙✨
Such a fun and creative way to explore sea life! 🐳🌊
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The children have been looking at the artist Bridget Riley and have been exploring her art work using different materials.
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In our RE lessons, we have been studying at the artist Jorge Cocco Santángelo. We discussed sacrocubism and children have recreated the artwork and discussed their colour choices.
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Following on from our Pantivity performance last week, we took part in an art worship making sheep pots out of clay, to symbolise that the shepherds watch over their sheep🐑
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Years 4, 5 and 6 had the amazing opportunity to attend an art workshop at The Edge today. We talked about Jesus and designed crowns inspired by Him being the Light of the World. 👑 💫
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Year 1 have been learning about the artist, Dale Chihuly in Art. So far, they have explored primary and secondary colours and they have created clay pots in the style of Dale Chihuly.
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The children created their own sunset water colour painting and made links between the creation story and Psalm 19.
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Preschool enjoying some free painting time, exploring textures and seasonal colours. ❤️
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🎉 Our First Week Back Was AMAZING! 🎉
What an incredible start to the year, little stars! ✨ We’ve made new friends 👯♀️, explored exciting activities 🎨🧩, and had SO much fun together! From playing games 🏃♂️ to learning new things 📚, every moment was filled with laughter and smiles! 😊💖
Here’s to a year full of new adventures, growing together, and making even MORE memories! 🌈🚀 We can’t wait to see what next week brings! 🎉🌟
#FirstWeekFun #BackToSchool #PreschoolAdventures #LearningAndLaughing
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As part of Reception’s topic ‘All Creatures Great and Small’. Reception have been creating clay spiders, the spiders were inspired by Louise Bourgeois ‘Mamam’ sculpture.
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Reception have been reading What the Ladybird Heard, they made some ladybirds. This activity developed the children’s cutting, folding and joining skills.
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In Reception this week, the children have been learning about the season of spring. The children have been on a spring walk around the school grounds to look for signs of spring. The children have also created some beautiful observational paintings of spring flowers.
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Year 4 have loved creating their own artwork for ‘The Empty Tomb’. We love the individuality and imagination put into these pieces.
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We have listened to the story of the ‘parable of the Sower’ the children retold the story as a group through art.
They each chose a part of the story and drew a picture to represent it. We then talked about the message of the story and how it teaches us to trust, believe and follow God.
In Reception, the children have been learning about winter. They had chance to spot scenes of winter on a wonderful walk around the school grounds, they learnt about wearing appropriate clothes in winter to keep warm. They had the opportunity to explore freezing and melting with real life snow. They also painted some beautiful winter scenes.
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The children in Reception looked at and discussed photographs of Andy Goldsworthy’s artwork and sculptures. They then create their own pieces of art in the style of And Goldsworthy.
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Year 1 have been making clay pinch pots and painting them in the style of Dale Chihuly. Their work reflects the Macchia series which Dale Chihuly created using over 300 colours.
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Reception about the story of ‘The Gunpowder Plot’. The children also had a discussion about keeping safe during Bonfire Night. They then had the opportunity to make some edible sparklers and created some firework artwork.
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In Reception, the children have been learning about the season of Autumn. They had the opportunity to go on an Autumn walk around the school grounds to look for signs of Autumn. The children also rolled conkers in paint to create some fantastic pieces of art.
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We have been learning all about bonfire night today. ❤️
We have made some salt art fire work pictures. 🎆 We have watched about what we need to do to stay safe on bonfire night. 🔥 And we have celebrated our learning in our floor book. 😊
In art preschool have been learning all about Yayoi Kusaman, and how she painted spots on pumpkins. We got our own pumpkins together and set off to work, we worked together to make our spotty pumpkins, we was showing amazing sharing and turn taking skills. Well done preschool. 🧡🎃
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In preschool we have been learning all about hedgehogs. We had an amazing idea to make our own clay hedgehogs. We used our fine motor skills to model and mould our clay. When we had made our hedgehog shapes, we then added our eyes, nose and the very important spikes. Well done preschool.
This week Year 1 have been exploring colour in Art and Design. We mixed primary colours to make secondary colours.
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Year 6 have been making abstract sculptures out of clay to represent the natural world. Their designs have been inspired by the work of Barbara Hepworth and Zaha Hadid.
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The children used pipe cleaners to sculpt their own animals like the artist Alexander Calder.




In Art, Year 5 have started researching the Spanish painter and sculptor Joan Miro. They discovered that his artistic talents were evident from a young age although his family did not agree with his passion for the subject. He developed his love for surrealist art in his adult years when he became an inspiration to other artists.
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The children have been researching the work of the artist, Alexander Calder.
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